wanting to put together a knife. advice please.

[RedShaft]

i have an old muzzleloader stock i screwed up. and its fancy or extra fancy curly maple(cant remember) i would like to make a knife. im not intrested in making my own blade. i want to get a blade and do the handle myself. i dont even know where to start or how hard it is to do that? i want to make a smaller knife no longer than 3in blade and small, slim handle. this knife will be used for hunting/ skinning.

[skullworks]

Helle Blades are very nice! PM sent with other info.

[RedShaft]

looked into the helle blades. how do i mount one of there blades into/on to my handle?

[SveinD]

There are several ways of mounting the blade to the handle, but I believe these to be the two most common.

Making a hidden tang knife from a set of scales.
 http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?5634-Hidden-Tang-Step-by-Step

Making a hidden tang using 1 block of wood, which is what I use.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOLMwJw0uh0&feature=related

Good luck building  

[akaboomer]

Don't overlook the great tutorial stickied at the top of this forum. Lin's tutorial has helped many on handles of the motised tang construction.

Chris